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JOtS About Food Fish.

American catfish, introduced into New
Zealand in 1879, are now abundant and
of large size. '-seg5{ :.
The number of shad caught during
1885 in the Hudson River is placed by
Fish Commissioner Blackford at Ill.,
S35, of which 1855, 312 were sold in the
New York market. With an average
price of $15 per 100 the total value was
$176,22
The salmon industry is on the decline
on the Columbia River, Oregon. Last
year somewhat more than 438, 900 cases
of salmon were put on the market, against
sos, 900 cases in 1885 and 628, 900 cases
in 1884. The scarcity of fish is accounted
for by the blocking of the river by means
of traps, seines and nets.
The red-snapper is now standard fish
in New York markets. The fish arc found
on both sides of Florida, those on the
west coast being the larger, though big
fish is not as desirable as the smaller ones.
Connecticut vessels engage in the busi-
ness, and the favorite ground is on the
east coast, off Cape Canaveral, south
wardly to Indian River, in from twelve to
fifteen fathoms of water. Few fish are
taken north of the Cape.
The favorite dish of the Chinaman,
trepang, or beche de mer, is eaten as a
soup, anda very good soup it makes. The
fish commission calls attention to the
holohuria, found in immense quantities in
the region of the Queen Charlotte islands
and Alexander islands Of Alaska, as well
as on the west coast of .Vancouver's
Island. When properly cured the trepang
would be worth $45 ton in Canton.
During 1885 the United States Fiah
Commission has placed in the various
waters of the United States, from the
tributaries of Narragansett Bay to those
of the Columbia River basin, 80, 404, 600
shad fry. NJ. Mcdonald, who has under
his immediate charge the obtaining of
the eggs of the shad and the rearing of
the fry, states that ''as the entire num-.
Der of shad taken for market is less than
six million it will be seen that for every
shad taken from the waters this season
for market there have been artifcially
Matched and returned to the waters fifteen
young shad." - d ~.
The total consumption of salted and
dried Goldfish has occupied the attention
of the German Fishery Association, and
the following figures are presented: Nor
way exports 63, 900, 900 cod-as, kip fish
or stock fish-Canada $4,000, 900, and
Newfoundland $780, 900. The total
from all the fisheries is 124, 500, 900, the
United States, Iceland, France and Hol'
land making up the rest. Catholic coun-
tries are the greatest consumers Of cod.
Spain uses $4,000, 900, the West Indies
$1,000, 900, Italy and Austria 1S, 400, 600,
the Brazils 12, 100000, Portugal {, S,000,-
900. and Great Britain and Ireland Z, ,100,-.
900. An estimate Of the value is $16,..
$50, 900. - ~. g..
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The Chinese alphabet contains thirty
Thousand characters.
In Corean city at night every way.
farer carries bamboo and paper lantern
with I candle in it.
The flea, grasshopper and locust jump
200 times their own length, equal to q
quarter of q mile for man.
The first copyright bill passed by
Congress in the interest of American
authors became law in 1890.
Scott Bar, Cal., has the tallcst post
master in the United States. He stands
over seven feet in his stockings and
weighs 2S0 pounds.
The Chinese are said to manufacture
an anesthetic not unlike cocoaine In its
action, and claim that the anesthctic prop
erty is the juice of the eye of the frog.
A small boy in Old City, Pa, is credit
ed with having trained a pair of big
Cochin China roosters to drive double to
harness. He bitches them to little
wagon, and it is said that they draw it
easily and willingly.
A returned missionary from India says
that during ten years she never saw q
Hindu child receive a caress from its
mother. Girl babies are looked upon as
a disgrace, and are often left to die or
murdered outright.
The camel in the East is the most
valuable servant of man. 1t eats little
and drinks less; the milk makes cheese
and butter; shoes and harness are made
of his skin, and of his hair tents and
clothing. For burden, he is the ship Of
the desert.
"What is the oldest university in
the world?" The University of Paris,
established A. D. 1140. Some authori-
ties, however, state that it was not
founded before 1915, but it is generally
acknowled that the University of Paris is
the oldest.
The word assassin, as applied to a
murderer, comes from the Assassinians, a
branch of fanatical Mahometans that set
tied in Persia in 1890. They trained up
young people to murder such people as
their chief had marked for destruction.
They were extirpated in Persia about
1858 and in Syria about 1872.
The United States Treasury was estab-
ished by law September 2, 1880. A
financial department had existed under
the Articles of Confederation, but as no
power then existed to collect revenue
from the States the Treasury was usually
empty, and the duties of its head were
but light. But upon the establishment
of the new Government this department
re-organized, and the title of its head
changed from Superintendent of Finance
to Secretary of the Treasury.
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Volcanic Phenomena.

Strange volcanic disturbances are said
to have been frightening the people lie-
ing along the Blood River, near New
Concord, in Galloway county, Ky. The
phenomena was first noticed short time
ago, when all the wells suddenly ran dry,
and at night there was deep rumbling
noise resembling the muttering of distant
thunder, which seemed to come from the
earth. Occasionally there would be an
explosion like the booming of far:of
gun, and recently column of fire has
been seen to shoot up at intervals during
tho night from Stonger's bluff, two miles
from the town. Citizens who went out
to investigate the disturbance say that
The heat near the bluff was so intense
that they could not approach it. The
scene of the phenomena is one of the
widest and most rugged parts OF the
State, and is remote from communication
by mail or telegraph.
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Preserving a Stair Carpet.

A quaint lesson in economy was given
by an English woman of wealth and
position to an American friend. 1t re-
lated to the method of preserving a stair
carpet. To maintain the elegant carpet
in its entirety as long as possible the
owner said that she and the lord of the
mansion had agreed to traverse certain
routes on the stair carpet, the one to keep
always to the right in going up and
down, and the other to walk only upon
the left hand side of the carpet. 1t was
expected that company would keep
exclusively to the centre of the stairway,
and that as a result of the arrangement
the stair carpet would grow old with
equal rapidity in al! its parts.
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TEMPERANCE.
Strength, Beauty and Gladness.

Strength, Beauty and Gladness.
Oh! do we wish for beauty?
What makes the flowers bloom?
What sprinkles all their loveliness
With varied sweet perfume!
The dew that creeps at evenings close,
The pearly raindrops bring
The perfume and the beauty
That glad the bowers of spring.
Is strength the gift we long for?
What rears the proud oaks form,
Whose brawny arms brave sturdily
The tempest and the storm?
He quaffs the pure, fresh moisture
By rootlet and by leaf,
And stands up in bis greatness,
That stout old forest chief.
Oh! do we wish for gladness?
What makes the wild birds sing?
Their drink is but the running brook,
The fower-clad crystal spring.
Then do we wish for beauty,
That mirth and strength be ours?
Our drink should be the heaven-sent drink
Of birds, and trees, and flowers.
C. Lduson.
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Tattooing in the South Sea Islands

Among the natives of the South Sea
Islands the tattoo process has religious
and social meaning as significant as the
dress which tells of a mans occupation
or lady's position in high civilized life.
The Kings or high chiefs have their pc.
culiar insignia tatooed on their bodies as
also have the chiefesses. Then come the
petty chiefs, who are marked according
to their rank. The common natives have
their own ear-marks, so to speak, and the
priests have their bodies mystically punct-
ured. A common native dare not, under
penalty of death, place the insignia of .
chief upon his body. The marks Of .
priest are inviolable, and even a King
must not counterfeit them. Besides GER
tain tattooing indicating rank and office,
bodies are frequently covered with the
designs of birds, fish, shells and fantastic
conceptions, which are purely the inspir-
alton Of the artist.-San Francisco Eran'-
5uer
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A Destructive Little Gnat.

The buffalo gnats appeared in the
lower part of the parish last week on
Thursday, and within forty,eight hours
of their appearance they had done much
destructive work. We are told that at
least seventy-fve heads of mules and
horses were killed in the Fifth, Sixth,
and Eighth Wards by the seemingly un-
pretentious little gnats. We have not
heard of the loss of any stock by the
gnats lately. We suppose that their un-
charitable work is over, as they seem to
be thinning out Observation-Disclosures
(La.) Clarion.
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Tho Question ofthe Ago.

Various opinions are expressed as to
what is "the great question of the age."
One may speak of foreign missions,
another of home evangelization, another
of temperance, and another, perhaps, of
Christian union. A thoughtful and OBJ
serving writer, however, has said that
the great question of the day is, How
to reach the church membership with
the gospel OF Christ" that is, to make
the entire church feel the full power of
the gospel and cherish and live up to its
full spirit in their daily life and conduct.
The great mass of our church men,
bers are oa.wardly moral and correct al
so in their theoretical belief. And many
of them are devoted in heart and life to
the service OF the Master, more, perhaps
than in almost any previous age. But,
alas, how little of deep spirituality and
self-denial and earnest and prayful effort
to bring others to Christ! How large q
number of the male membership of our
churches are never seen in the prayer
meetingl How few speak to the innpeni-
tent on the great subject Of personal sal
vation, seeking continually, like Harlan
Page, to win men to Christ! How many
neglect the worship Of God in the family
and give almost nothing to the great
causes of benevolence, and, in word, 50
live that no one would take them for
church members but that now and then
they are seen at the communion table!
Is there not truth, and what ought to
be felt as startling truth, in the manifest
fact that so many in the church are fall
ing in with worldly influences and fash
ions, rather than overcoming such in
fluences by the Spirit of Christ; that, as
some one has said, "The church is ma.
terialistic, rather than truly spiritual; {;
rationalistic, rather than fully believing /;
self.indulgent, rather than sclf-dcnying"
in the cause of the Master and for the
good of men! Is it not true, as the ven
erable ex-Prcsidcnt Hopkins has said,
that the essential inference of self-de.
NAL in the Christian system is doctrine
:hat has faded or is fading out fiom The
consciousness of the Christian church,"
and that so many are satisfied with sing
ing, "Hold the fort" and, "Herc, Lord,
I give myself away" whi'c they still live
on very much as the world lives, giving
but faint evidence that the Spirit of
Christ is the controlling spirit of their
lives?
The avenues of usefulness are more
numerous and more widely open than
ever before, and our missionary and tract
and Bible societies are doing great,
and glorious work for the salvation of
men. And if the entire church would
but rise superior to worldly influences,
and in the spirit of Chr st devote them
selves to doing his work the wide world
might soon be brought to the Saviour'l
feet.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
The Sovereign Will.

AAS
A mans heart deviseth his way; but tn
Lord direcseth his steps. Prov. 2l:l.
A plan is in this life Of mine
Despite its sun and wrong;
Beyond my will hand divine
Hath led my steps along.
I've,travelled oft thorny way
Which couldn't refuse,
But mercies followed, day by day,
More than my heart could choose.
Mans pride in youth ham ut proposed
Which way his course should tend.
To find sovereign will disposed
The journ y and the enl.
Mans way, I find, is not in mai
To order and control
There lies above his partial plaa
A larger, grandcr whole.
Learn thou. my soul. without debate.
Gods voics and hand to heed;
In faith olabor and to wait,
Con:ent TO let him lead.
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Forty years AGO an old lady in Ball

Forty years ago an old lady in Bald
win, Fla, about to die, made her children
promise not to bury her body. She
threatened to haunt them if they die, land
so when she was dead they placed the
body in a stout coffin of Florida pine,
placed it on the surface of the ground in
the graveyard and built strong pen
around it. The log house is in good con
dition now, and SO is the coffin within 1t,
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Temperance Notes'

Twelve hundred Of the dra,,l *" If
Holland have been abolished by law.
Sir Andrew Clark, distinguished
London physician, says that seventy out
every 100 patients in the London Hos
pital owe their ill-health to alcohol.
Queen Victoria has expressed much
pleasure in receiving Woman's National
Jubilee Memorial from the Liverpool
Ladies' Temperance Association, request
ing her Majesty to use her influence for
enforcing bill for Sunday closing OF
public Hc-houses.
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The world is the great tempter; but at
the same time it is the great monitor. 1t
stimulates our pride by its pomp and
show, its feeting honors and prizes; it
goads men to the race, and inspires them
with covetousness and rapacity, but, on
the other hand, it is the great memento
and evidence of its own vanity, and OF
the emptiness of everything it offers to us.
1t is the great saddeDer, tho great warner.
the great prophet.
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A Cure for the Drink Appetite.

An exchange prints the following: "An
old doctor in Philadelphia says that any
man or boy who has not lost his will
power can cure himself of the habits of
lEssoxicattng drinks, and even of tobacco,
by chewing a pinch of simple hops at
times. That the hops are fine medicine,
and also will cleanse the liver and kid
neys, is fact. All persons should try
it who want to cure themselves from such
sinful and expensive habits.n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17
People far Francis,

FfSta Hae HeeheF0Es NathehtIpiAt
The Gaaeaeeresal predicts that
the coming guhernatorial race will
DO q fght between the people and
the politicians, Mayor Francis
has already caused a great stir
throughout the state, and it cannot
be denied that at the present time
as a gahernatarial candidate he
leads all others. He is a young
man end within a few years has
risen to great prominence, not only
in Missouri but throughout the
whole country, and the old poiiti-
cal hacks in the state, seeing his
progress, are making preparations
to defeat him at all hazards in his
guhernatorial aspirations, In this
the politicians will find that the
people are the power behind the
throne, and that when the conven-
ton meets they will be compelled
TO submit to the dictates of their
constituency and not to their own
wishes, The people are opposed
to any combines that will be the
means of defeating good and true
men simply to aid or please a few
| political sehemers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17
Prohihltion

FEblu tut cts Atuis hSPupiltAAs
All the prohibition enanctments
in Maine have failed, thus far, to
reduce Michael Burns of Augusta
to terms. Burns is not a saloon
keeper; he deals only in liquor in
original packages, which he i'm
ports from other states, and claims
the right to sell with the same free
dom from interference as a dry
goods dealer. He has been tried
and convicted of violating the law,
but has appealed the case to the
Supreme Court of the state-and in
the meantime continues to carry on
the business of supplying liquor in
the original packages to his Gus
toners. 1t appears from the Uni
ted States internal revenue returns
that the collections for liquor icen.
ses in Maine are steadily increas.
ing, being II per cent. more for the
first quarter of the present fisca.
year than for the corresponding
quarter of last year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17
Funeral of II. c. Duffy.

The remains of Hon. H. c.. DUFF
fly, who died at his home in Louis
lana at 3 O'Clock on last Tuesday
morning, were yesterday in
tered in the graveyard at New
Harmony, Pike county. Deceased
was i'll less than an hour before he
died, death being caused from
neuralgia of the head. He was
So years old and was numbered
among the influential citizens of
Pike and for the past forty years
had been a successful merchant.
He was for ten years President OF
the Louisiana Board of Education,
and in 1876 was appointed by Gov.
Phelps an honorary member of the
Centennial Commission from Mis-
souri,. At the time of his death he
was President of the Burnett Opera
House Company, and also Repre-
sentative in the Thirty-fourth Gen
eral Assembly from Pike county
where he served with honor and
distinction to himself and his con-
stituency. Deceased leaves a wife
and five children. He was a
Knight of Honor and had an in
surance policy for $1,000 in this
order.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17
Three Things Settled.

rum IL loIh "oAAN
The result of the election in this
state settled three points as thor
oughly as any political event can
be settled in advance:
President Cleveland will be re-
nominated by his party.
Mr.. Blaine will not be renomi-
mated by the Republicans.
Mr.. George will not control the
election next year.
New York is the pivotal state
Mr.. Cleveland's friends have had
a complete triumph. They are
entitled to the fruits of the victory.
Grover Cleveland is indeed a
lucky man; and James G.. Blaine
may be said to be a dead cock in
the pit.
A BROTHER of Fischer, the An.
archist, who was hanged in Chica.
go on Friday, announces that he is
a Monarchist. He thinks the coun.
try would be improved if handed
owe to a nice, genial King. If the
Fischer family would attend strict
ly to the business of earning a liv-
ing and let the human race on this
side of the water shift for itself il
would probably find its personal
comfort greatly enhanced. The
trouble with the Fischers who take
up their abode here is that they dc
not exactly know when they are
well off. They recall the old cpl.
taph in an English church yard:
"John Smith. l was we'll, wanted
to be better, took medicine and
here / am"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17
PUBLIC SALE
On Wednesday, November q, I5s3

twill sell at public sale TO the ~.
bidder, at my farm, 10 miles Sout6rS
81 Mexico and 8 miles Southeast ~ 49,
tralsa, Mo-, the following propertv. -
8 good jacks, three proved and a.
large; 8 old enough for spring sery5css
other three young. Cataiogue6-
good jennets, proved; two ~.
Clyde stations; / fine saddle STALE
Rockaway and Canadian; 20 good hros
mares, from 3 to IL years old, most
bred to good Jack; W 2-year-old nuSS,
one a Charley Ross colt n the othes Z
Rockaway; l sfx-year-old work mules I
six year-old saddle horse; 1 two-yeas
old mules; IL young mules, yearlines ~
colts, 2 saddle colts; l Clyde colt; -
head thoroughbred Shorthorn catfIe
Young cows and heifers and one eoo3
bull, all Of the families of Young Msryss
Brittanias, Amelias, Rosemarys, Ross
buds, topped by Rose Of Sharon. Cata-
logues at sale. Thirty head Of graded
cattle, 5 good milk cows, all giving MIN.
two 2-year-old heifers and calves, 4 two.
year-oid steers, 9 yearling steers, 8 goed
steer calves, 8 good heller calves, l good
bull calf and 80 head of fine stock h0ea
Also, one good two-horse buggy, /
spring wagon, two 2-horse wagons, |
hay rakes, moving machine and all kind
of farm implements, and my householi
and kitchen furniture.
TERM OF SALE.-Al sums Of $40 al
under, cash; over that smount a cred
of I2 months with 8 per cent. and approx
ed security. Sale begins ct 10 O'Clock Z
m. JAS. H. SHOCK.
j. r. JOHNSON G JNo. w. ATCHIsoN,
Au~ctioneers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, John Eubanks and Carrie
Eubanks, his wife, on the 9th day Of
February. 1879, made and executed their
deed of trust, which is recorded at page
362, book en-" for deeds of trust and
mortgages, in the Recorders office
In Audrain county, Mo-, thereby convey
ing to the undersigned trustee all their
interest in and to the following described
lands In said county, to-wit:
Lots number six and seven &c and ID,
in block number twenty-five (22), in
Ladd's addition to the city of Mexico,
Mo-, south of the railroad.
Said deed of trust was given to G. w.
Baker, as trustee, to secure the payment
of a note therein described, and, whereas,
said note is due and unpaid, and, where
as, C. w. Baker has removed, and,
whereas, by the terms of the deed, / be-
come his successor; now at the request
of the legal holder of said note /, the un-
dersigned trustee in said deed of trust
named, win, on
Thursday, December Is, 1887.
sell said lands for cash to the highest
bidder, between the hours of 8 a. m. and
4 p. m. at the east front door Of the
Court House in Mexico, Mo-, to satisfy
the conditions of said trust and costs.
59tds j. w. ATCHIsoN,
Sheriff of Audrain county and acting
trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17

ORR contemporary appears to be
laboring under the impression that
Cockerell is Congressman from the
Warrensburg district, and compares
his work as Congressman with that
of Col. Hutton's of this district. II
is rather tough on the Colonel fol-
his organ TO say that as Congress
man from this district he has done
as much for his district as a man
who is not a Congressman has
done fer certain Congressional
district in the State, which has a
representative of its own. Give the
Colonel his just deserts and stop
poking fun at him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-11-17
The Lord Be Praised.

From the Louisville Courier-Jourual
Let the boys in the trenches re-
joice.
The two pivotal points of the
political situation have gone against
the Republicans, horse, foot and
dragons, and the Democratic
goose swings away up in the air.
New York stands by the Admin.
istration with a wet sheet and a
flowing sea, and a wind that fol.
lows fast.
Virginia repudiates Riddlebergel
and mops up the earth with Ma,
hone, like a thousand o. brick.
Of course the Dutch have cap
tured Holland in Ohio, Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island, but those
just happen to be the States the
Democrats can dispense with and
on which no Democratic stake, or
hope, was invested.
Little Foraker may. loom now fol-
Vice-President; but Brother Blaine
is relegated to private life for -four
years.
The results in New York and
Virginia, confirming both States to
the Democracy, place the renomi.
nation and reelection of Grover
Cleveland beyond the possibility
of a doubt. The Republicans car
put no ticket in the field to beat
him. His luck is triumphant
Allison and Hawley, the strongest
possible Republican team, and
under the circumstances, the like
liest, can not avail. The issue wa.
fairly put on New York and th.
President has fairly won. Hurraf
for Cleveland!
We mourn for Pulitzer. We DIES
pair of Halstead. But Gods PEG
pie are to have their seven, yea
their eight years of plenty, and tn,
will of God be the law of the land
Sand the star spangled banner
Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom
Shouting the battle cry of freedom!'